Women of the Working Class

<p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>Transforming history into fiction this collection features eighteen short stories centred on female protagonists. These women derive from diverse locations and historical milieus but they have one thing in common: their working-class backgrounds. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>MARY SMITH wants nothing more than to study and write books but she </span><em style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>must</em><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))> earn a living. Will she ever find the time to fulfil her literary ambitions?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>ELLEN JOHNSTON factory worker and talented poet with a way with words dreams of wealth and recognition seeking escape from her miserable existence. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>After an exhausting ten-hour shift at the cotton mill ANNIE KENNEY attends a meeting in the canteen where Christabel Pankhurst gives a talk about the SUFFRAGETTES. Annie's life will never be the same.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>When Angie's husband strikes with the miners she joins the WOMEN AGAINST PIT CLOSURES MOVEMENT. How will she cope when daily life returns to normality?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>In the final story the narrator retraces a childhood walk home from school past familiar landmarks such as castle ruins and a framework knitter's cottage. Personal recollections blend with RADICAL HISTORY. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(000var(--O42jJQ1))>Spanning settings from the jute mills of Dundee to the sweat factories of London's East End to the Cornish coastline the author reimagines the experiences of these notable working-class women examining how their roles have evolved over the past century. </span></p><p></p>